Suggestion for Emerson, Lake & Palmer

With recent changes here at ProgArchives I thought I'd see if the name of
Emerson Lake & Palmer could be changed to Emerson, Lake & Palmer. I've
only noticed that Amazon doesn't use the comma, most other online
databases seem to.

For a lot of the first albums, "Emerson Lake & Palmer" was used, but keep
in mind a lot of the time there were line breaks, so a comma could be
done away with:

   Emerson
   Lake &
   Palmer

However on the cover art of their releases in the last 20 years, almost all
of them use the comma as "Emerson, Lake & Palmer" is all on a single
line.

It reflects the true name of the band, take a look at their official site.

Golden Earring used names like The Golden Earring and Golden Earrings
in the past but Golden Earring is consistently used today and on all
compilations.

hmm, why can't I vote for "who cares?" ?

Are you my grammar teacher that at last accepted prog'?

Other way I honestly don't see the importance of this.

Iván

 

I'd just like to vote for Emerson Lake & Palmer...on anything... so I'm thinking you just put this question in to make me happy...

However, on this:

On the Trilogy cover it says:

Emerson Lake & Palmer  (no comma)

On the next cover that has the name fully across - Works 1 - it says

Emerson Lake & Palmer  (no comma)

The next is Works 2 - it says EMERSON LAKE & PALMER (no comma)

The next is Love Beach - again  no comma  (and I love posting ths cover) ahhhh

Again.. the Live Album - no comma

The Best of ELP album... again no commas

Then & Now (from 1998 - no comma)

All the official bootleg cds... Red & Blue (2001) ( no commas)

There's only a few that have the comma in.. such as Black Moon, ITHS, and the boxset... thats about it.. So your request doesn't seem to be correct.

Your right that most of the commercial releases did not use the comma, but recently it looks that the comma has been used more.

The comma is mostly used on recent compilations and live releases, along with those two popular albums of the 90's . Also see the official the website's discography. You can also see Greg Lake's and Keith Emerson's official sites, both of which use more than the bare HTML standard...

Well on the spine of the debut it says "ELP - Emerson Lake & Palmer", ergo I suggest they should be listed as ELP! In all honesty I don't care, though.

Yeah it affects people with digital music libraries or databases, or
cataloguers. Searching for Close to the Edge on Google yields the
ProgArchives entry at number 7 so people will find it. It seems like there
are quite a few prog fans from the 70's here who might think it's
pointless to worry about the correct naming of an artist, but most people
these days manage their entire music libraries on their computers, I keep
all mine on my
hard drive.

well i agrees with ice man. if you dounload musics it can read Premiata Forneria marconi or PFM or P.F.M. and the tags not seen as same groups by the pc or player. you have to chamges them wich can be taking much times.

this is rellatred to the progmuisc general tiped questions.